And we continue now with this article.
“We’re just trying to teach people about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. A lot of what’s going on in Congress wouldn’t stand up to the Constitution,” said Bernard Hargenrader
You know, that might be easier if you were teaching something that was actually true.
In Huntsville, Ala., a young medical student wore a Barack Obama mask carrying a sign that said: “Do you really want me to make medical decisions on your behalf? Just say no to government-run health care.” The Huntsville rally was one of 11 scheduled in that state.
Actually, what I want you to do is actually read who will be in charge of the system and making the decision. You might be surprised to find out that you’d be closer to the truth if you took the mask off.
At the East Texas tea party in Lukin, organizers gave out the White House telephone number and urged attendees to call Obama and tell him: “We are not happy, and we are working to make Texas free from his legislation.”
Great, more secessionists.
Texas’ former Solicitor General Ted Cruz, told the crowd that America is “facing the single greatest threat to our liberty that we’ve ever seen. I believe that President Obama was elected because we failed to lead. But I also believe that his greatest legacy as president will be that he inspired a new generation of conservatives to rise up and defend our liberty.”
Right, because Obama ranks above the British, Hitler, Mexico, the Soviet Union, G.W. Bush, and Space Beings in the threat to liberty scale. Actually, I think he got elected because your party is fucking bat shit, fucked up the country, and generally made it necessary to elect somebody who could form a coherent sentence. I also highly doubt that that will be his greatest legacy, you know, with the whole being the first black president thing and all.
“I like to think of Texas as America on steroids,” Cruz said. “It is a spirit that says ‘give me a horse, a gun and an open plain and I can conquer the world.’”
Now that this has been said, can we please stop electing Texans into the White House, ever again? We’ve been given an eight year education into why this is a bad thing.
“What would Jefferson do?”
Probably disagree with you.
“It is a day when we celebrate the independence of our country and not that it is a democracy, it is a republic,” said Pat O’Malley, organizer of the Clearwater, Fla., tea party. “And the powers that be are trying to turn it into a democracy.”
Wait, what the fuck? Since? Wait, no. Can somebody please get this guy into the shade? Are we voting on everything now? Huh? I thought you were the guys who hated Congress so much? Oh, Clearwater, now I understand. HAIL XENU!
“He is selling us down the drain,” she said. “I decided to get up off my fanny and hold my sign here.”
And we’re glad you did. It’s nice to see that you’re being passionate about what you believe, even if it is completely misguided. I’d also make a joke about you needed the exercise, but there’s no picture of you.
Organizers around the country expressed their delight with turnouts.
Until you compare it to gay pride parades and peace rallies.
“I was in the middle of a conversation and I turned around and saw all these people – it filled me with joy that this many people care,” Landis said.
Low standards, it’s the key to happiness.
“Taxation without representation is no 4th of July picnic.”
Those election things we had in November where we elected representatives, am I the only one who remembers those?
“We just do not want to go to socialism.”
Look, if you’re lazy like that, I’m sure socialism is willing to come to you.
“We’re on our way to declaring independence from an oppressive government,” O’Connor said
You know where a great place for you to organize your rebellion is at? Gitmo.
“Socialism does not work. It never has worked. It never will.”
Except is has, does, and will continue to do so. Education, police, fire, health care, roads, and so on. Some of those are even in our own country no less.
“It’s young people that elected Obama. But they don’t realize how much they’re going to have to pay (in taxes) because of him.”
Well, I guess that’s better than ‘blacks,” who also had a major part. But you know something, youth doesn’t mean ignorance. I don’t go around saying it’s old people who hold on to traditionalist ideologies that aren’t in line with empirical evidence that gave us the Bush administration. Age isn’t the issue, it’s the ideology. Furthermore, you’re an arrogant, ageist, douchebag. You don’t realize how much conservatives have fucked over people either, so I’ll have you just shut your trap. You know, I just get rather pissed off at people who think that age automatically makes them smarter than everybody else.
In Wichita Falls, Texas, they brough both ideas together by reading the Declaration of Independence aloud.
“Many people have never read it before, or they read the first two paragraphs then stop,” one organizer explained.
Here’s an interesting lesson. The Declaration of Independence is not a governing legal document of this country. We aren’t beholden to anything it says. Sure, it’s useful in trying to interpret intent, but beyond that, it’s not a binding document.
I also have another theory on the matter of these social gatherings. The far right isn’t very good at counting. Take a look at these pictures and then the estimated number of people in attendance. Does the word “thousands” actually come to mind? These parties just aren’t all that big.
Take the first bit of this article. Even if you take a very liberal estimate of spacing between people you’re only barely scratching a thousand people. Then again, I was at the local Palin rally when she was in town, and there weren’t nearly the estimated number of people. So numbers inflation is something they’re pretty good at.
I did not stay for the entire program. My offhand guess is that they had about 600-700 people. Except for a few JROTC young people and one speaker the crowd was entirely white. Mostly middle-aged but some younger people who were clearly not with their parents,
A pretty telling and mixed portrait of America we have there.
I have wandered into a few leftist demonstrations in the last few years and seen others on tv or Youtube, and certainly the venom and viciousness that characterizes such events was entirely absent.
This, my friends, is what we call selection bias. I’ve wandered into a few right-wing demonstrations and seen others on tv and Youtube that were also very vicious and hateful.
Although the organizer who spoke said that the group was not endorsing any political party, she did make a brief plug for a local Republican congressman.
You know, no matter how many times you tell yourself that you’re not endorsing one particular party, it doesn’t make it true.
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